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Lethal weapon: The story of two Vietnam-vets-turned-cops who have just one thing in common: both hate to work with partners. But their partnership becomes the key to survival when a murder investigation leads to war with a heroin ring.
Lethal weapon 2: Riggs and Murtaugh must guard a free-wheeling witness in a comedy of car chases, gun battles, under-water escapes, even the destruction of a chic hillside house.
1485) The last circle: Danny Casolaro's investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS software scandal
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"Ayda Levy, viuda de Roberto Suárez, de quien se separó al enterarse de que el acaudalado empresario, descendiente del imperio del caucho, estaba involucrado en el narcotráfico, narra en estas páginas sus vivencias y las revelaciones que el productor de la droga más pura del mundo compartió con ella."--Back cover.
Ayda Levy, widow of Roberto Suarez, who separated from him when she learned that the wealthy businessman was involved in drug trafficking,...
1488) The fence =: (La Barda)
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In 2006, the U.S. government built the Southern U.S. Border Barrier, a fence that stretches only 700 miles of the 2000 plus miles comprising the U.S.-Mexican border to help contain the illegal immigration issue, at a cost of three years and three billion dollars. Kennedy investigates the impact of the fence and some of its unforeseen consequences. Through candid interviews with border guards, ranchers, environmentalists, she asked the question: Was...
1489) Hillary's back!
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DI Hillary Greene mystery volume 18
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"Eighteen months after Hillary suffered a personal tragedy, she is throwing herself into her work to try to get over it. Former soldier Gareth Proctor joins her team and finds himself quickly growing to enjoy his new environment. The first cold case he works on is the murder of Andrew Feeley. In 2012, this twenty-one-year-old was found dead in the woods near his home, killed by a single stab wound to the chest from his own knife. Andrew was extremely...
1491) La fábrica del crimen
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Vicente es un adolescente que junto con dos de sus compañeros de escuela asesina a su padre, a su madre y a su hermana; al primero, de dos disparos y a las mujeres, a puñaladas. Pretende fingir un secuestro por parte del narco y pedir rescate a la familia de su madre. Está seguro de que nada le sucederá porque la mayoría de los crímenes que se cometen en su localidad, Ciudad Juárez, quedan impunes. Basada en hechos reales y tras una intensa...
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From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).
Shadow on the window: "Three teenagers, led by psychopathic Jess Reber, break into an isolated farmhouse and murder its prosperous...
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Una investigación profundamente documentada sobre la forma en que el narcotráfico aniquila o seduce a periodistas. Conuna pluma violenta, aguerrida, profundamente humana, Javier Valdez Cárdenas revela quiénes han sido víctimas de los narcos por buscar la verdad, por escribir con valentía sobre la impunidad y las injusticias, y cómo actúan algunos reporteros o analistas que colaboran para los narcos con tráfico de información y servicios...
1495) Hijo de la guerra
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"En el penal de Chiconautla, un recluso condenado por un delito menor asegura ser el Zeta 9, uno de los fundadores del cartel más sanguinario de México. Incrédulo, pero movido por la curiosidad, un periodista acude para entrevistarse con él, sumergiéndose así en un escenario donde los límites entre la verdad y el engaño se difuminan. Determinar la identidad de este personaje inasible, a quien envuelve el más grotesco cinismo, se convierte...
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Pablo Escobar was one of the most terrifying criminal minds of the last century. In the decade before his death in 1993, he reigned as the head of a multinational cocaine industry and brought the Colombian state to its knees, killing thousands of politicians, media personalities, police, and unarmed citizens.In the 1980s, Virginia Vallejo was Colombia's most famous television celebrity: a top-rated anchorwoman and a twice-divorced socialite who had...
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The fast and the furious: Every night is a championship race on the turbo-charged streets of Los Angeles. Dominic and Johnny are rivals who are the boldest, the baddest, the best, and turn their challengers into dust. Dominic and Johnny know that the new challenger is tough and fast, what they don't know is that he is a speed demon detective trying to bust up a theft ring.
2 fast 2 furious: now an ex-cop on the run, Brian, hooks into outlaw street...
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The two Escobars: "[A movie about] the intersection of crime, sports and nationalism in 1990's Columbia. At a time when drug money fueled the sport known in the underworld as 'Narco-soccer', the fates of Andrés Escobar, the inspirational captain of Nacional and Pablo Escobar, the notorious leader of the Medellin cartel, were permanently linked. When Andrés was murdered 10 days after scoring an 'own goal' against the US in the first round of the...
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"Historias jamás reveladas del jefe del Cártel de Medellín Pablo Escobar no pasa de moda. Por el contrario, su carrera criminal sigue atrayendo al mundo entero. Netflix estrenó la segunda temporada de Narcos, con el jefe del cartel de Medellín como protagonista. Estados Unidos, Inglaterra, Nueva Zelanda e Italia acaban de publicar el libro Pablo Escobar, mi padre, escrito por Juan Pablo Escobar, hijo del capo. Por eso es más que pertinente la...
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